FAMILY CAREGIVING: WHAT WOULD A MARTIAN SAY?

serving and advocating especially for the elderly. Persisting is the question: What is a proper interface between the immanent change wrought by life's expanding opportunities, and the continuing need for a society to maintain an age status institution which provides order, stability, and predictability? An unidentified "villain" is chronological age. Hazan and Gubrium locate the essence of age in perceptions of individuals qua individuals. Riley would simply bypass, possibly transcend, that which bureaucratization has bestowed. Hendricks focuses on social age. Thus, chronological age, a potent weapon for the gerontological movement through its ameliorative and empirical research stages, may now be under subtle attack as phase three, exploration of alternative futures, unfolds.